This article is by F. Brinley Bruton reporting from Bogotá, Colombia, and a Caracas-based reporter who is not being identified because of safety concerns. BOGOTÁ, Colombia — One week after United ...

María-Elena Pombo has created “petroleum weavings,” turning threads made from oil into elaborate yarnlike wall hangings. Oil, she told us, has shaped her life. Her father, an oil engineer, met her ...

In the aftermath of the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, Venezuela has agreed to submit a monthly budget to the Trump administration, which will release ...

President Trump’s attention has passed on from seizing control of Venezuela to seizing control of Greenland and seizing control of Minnesota. But he took on a big task when he said he was also ...

Venezuela transitioned from a close U.S. ally after the 1958 dictatorship collapse and through the anti-Communist Betancourt presidency, becoming a key source of oil and a counterweight to Cuba during ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday urged patience on U.S. efforts to rehabilitate Venezuela’s oil industry and eventually return the country to democratic governance. The secretary’s remarks ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. María-Elena Pombo has created “petroleum weavings,” turning threads made from oil into elaborate ...

A long history of underinvestment, extreme political risk, and organized crime. These are just some of the issues that U.S. oil and minerals companies might face if they were to set foot into ...